PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia has been partially granted a protective order over a number of investigative records being sought in a case brought by a pair of female Philadelphia police officers, who claim they were the longtime targets of harassment and discrimination.
WASHINGTON – A unanimous panel of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a 1991 definition of an automatic telephone dialing system did not govern unsolicited text messages social media company Facebook sent to a cell phone number in its database, a ruling that could change the landscape of litigation brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
PHILADELPHIA – A facilities director at a Delaware County school claims that he was discriminated against for his race and medical condition by other school personnel, before being fired.
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a broad-based liability shield for the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial businesses and health care entities statewide, in a bill that would protect them from lawsuit claims related to coronavirus exposure.
During a press conference held on Independence Mall this morning, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams was joined by senior officials from more than 15 federal agencies operating in the Philadelphia area to announce their collective effort to combat the raging epidemic of violence in the city.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh’s Water and Sewer Authority has denied it was responsible for the alleged defective design and failure to repair a deteriorating storm sewer culvert, which caused storm water runoff to flow into the plaintiffs’ homes.
The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on March 31. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PHILADELPHIA – A trial is upcoming in an insurance case in which Delaware County wants insurance coverage to the tune of $32 million, for damages it alleges it suffered when a 12-ton panel fell on one of its parking garages and adjacent buildings.
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Presque Isle State Park were sued on March 26 in the Western Pennsylvania District Court by a former park ranger who says his supervisor was racist towards him.
ALLENTOWN – A Pennsylvania man who fell off a ladder on the job and sustained a litany of serious injuries has filed suit against the ladder manufacturer, Home Depot and Lowe’s, seeking product liability-related damages.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has granted a crossbow manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment in dismissing a case brought by the widow of a man who was shot in the foot with the company’s device, finding that the absence of testimony at the moment of the incident precluded the case from going to trial.
Apple and Verizon face a civil complaint in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas from a Crescent Township man who says that his iPhone 6 spontaneously exploded after being connected to a charger.
ALLENTOWN – The Easton Area School District is seeking summary judgment to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an ex-varsity high school wrestling coach who alleged he faced discriminatory and racist conduct, including being fired, because he is Black.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh argues that it was not negligent in failing to repair a section of sidewalk leading to a common mailbox area near her residence, causing her to fall and become seriously injured.
PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh School District alleges that there are no substantive claims contained in a lawsuit brought against it by a longtime special education teacher who says she was fired by the district last August, while convalescing from a series of serious ankle injuries she sustained in three separate falls.
HARRISBURG – A Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania has launched litigation against a host of medical professionals and health care companies, alleging it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania landlord counters that a tenant suing it for negligence connected to his fall over a pair of retaining walls in his apartment parking lot, is solely responsible for his own injuries.
